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DHS to business: Help us

The department wants to enhance security without unduly burdening companies or limiting trade, the DHS secretary says.

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Share-in-savings regulations will receive one more review

Office of Federal Procurement Policy officials admit they dropped the ball in getting share-in-savings off the ground and have fumbled again in their attempts to fix it.

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Feds hunt for XML core

The National Information Exchange Model seeks to identify a core set of schemas and ensure their standardization.

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GovBenefits to let agencies brand own benefits pages

GovBenefits.gov today celebrated its third year by adding more than 600 programs from federal, state and local governments.

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DHS looks for research help

The Homeland Security Department must improve its research and development of new technologies, its science chief said.

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Intelligence helps Titan's Q1

The defense and homeland security contractor reported a 23 percent surge in first-quarter revenue.

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First, skill all the lawyers

Unlike civilian lawyers who practice in a single area, Air Force judge advocates often must deal with a variety of legal areas every day.

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Managers say security is good, despite bad grades

Most IT managers think information security at their agencies is pretty darn good—despite the latest computer security report cards handed out by the House Government Reform Committee, which gave agencies an overall grade of D+.<@SM>

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Cooper joins Red Cross as CIO

The former CIO at DHS now has the same position at the Red Cross.

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Gates, Powell: IT’s benefits should be visible

One is the richest man in the world; the other a former secretary of State. Both had a similar message this week about IT in government.

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House committee passes DHS budget

The budget authorization for 2006 moves to the House.

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Bates to work with Topside

But the former FTS commissioner has made it clear that retirement is her priority.

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What’s new in Exchange 2003

Microsoft will cease support of its Exchange 5.5 messaging server software this year, making it all but inevitable that agencies will need to upgrade to Microsoft’s latest—Exchange 2003.

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William “Bill” McDermott | Competitors can also be partners

Last December, when Oracle Corp. bought PeopleSoft, SAP AG of Walldorf, Germany, wasted no time in setting out to court PeopleSoft customers.

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DOD IG resists congressional pressure on acquisition audits

The Defense Department’s inspector general’s office will not say when it plans to resume a pair of audits evaluating the department’s acquisition processes and commercial criteria justifications that were recently suspended due to a lack of resources.

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Internaut: Defense shows how an enterprise architecture can really work

With all the talk lately about government enterprise architectures, it’s interesting to see what the Defense Logistics Agency is doing to get all of its procurement, supply chain and logistics managers on the same page.

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CIO Council to clear up support

The CIO Council may clarify which organizations can claim its support, Karen Evans said.

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Librarians air frustrations

Plans for the GPO's future digital system were an issue at the Depository Library Council meeting.

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Air Force inks enterprise IT plan

The new Air Force Enterprise IT Services Strategy will improve airmen's abilities to collaborate in planning and decision-making, officials say.

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Education expands aid modernization

Education Department officials are now sifting through 4,731 ideas about how to redesign their front-end student financial aid systems.